Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution

This is a solution to the REST Countries API with color theme switcher challenge on Frontend Mentor. Frontend Mentor challenges help you improve your coding skills by building realistic projects.

Table of contents

• Frontend Mentor - REST Countries API with color theme switcher solution
  • Table of contents
  • Overview
    • The challenge
    • Screenshot
    • Links
  • My process
    • Built with
    • What I learned
    • Continued development
    • Useful resources
  • Author

Overview

The challenge

Users should be able to:

• See all countries from the API on the homepage
• Search for a country using an input field
• Filter countries by region
• Click on a country to see more detailed information on a separate page
• Click through to the border countries on the detail page
• Toggle the color scheme between light and dark mode (optional)

Screenshot

Links

• Solution URL: Add solution URL here
• Live Site URL: Add live site URL here

My process

Built with

• Semantic HTML5 markup
• CSS custom properties
• Flexbox
• CSS Grid
• Mobile-first workflow
• React - JS library
• Vite - Frontend Tooling
• Styled Components - For styles
• Typescript
• React Select - Select library
• React Helmet - Head manager for React
• PNpm - Package manager
• Conventional Commits - A specification for commit messages

What I learned

• A better folders architecture with React Hooks, Context and Types.
• Theming with Styled Components.
• Cache with localStorage.
• PNPM as my package manager.
• Conventional Commits.

Continued development

I want to use Frame Motion for some page transitions and implement tests with Cypress.

Useful resources

• About Convetional Commits - This helped me for a better understanding about Conventional Commits.
• Folder architecture - This article helped me with some ideas for my project folder architecture.

Author

• Frontend Mentor - @viniciuscosta89
• LinkedIn - @viniciuscosta89